The Medicaid program was originally intended for poor people and low-income children. Refocusing Medicaid’s mission to better serve its core population would boost their access to care. It would hopefully encourage primary care through physicians’ offices rather than emergency rooms.
Category: Health Insurance
Tuesday Links
- Why does time fly faster as we get older?
- TikTok sale may not be as easy as Trump thinks.
- Microsoft’s new AI system correctly diagnosed patient cases 80% of the time. According to the company, the results from the tool are four times better than the human physicians in the study, who reached the correct answer 20% of the time.
- States receive $9 in federal funds for every $1 of state spending on able-bodied, working-age adults compared to an average of only $1.33 in federal funds for every $1 of state spending on children, pregnant women, seniors, and people with disabilities.
Monday Links
- The OBBBA improves child benefits over current law, but long-term benefits continue to decline as a percent of GDP.
- The Alpha School project reduces the time that kids have to spend in traditional K-12 schools by more than 50 percent.
- New Zealand approves use of ‘magic mushrooms’ to treat depression but only one psychiatrist is allowed to prescribe it.
- Social Security Trustees: With no change, in 8 years the law will require a 23 percent benefit cut. Balancing Social Security’s long-term books requires a 30 percent permanent benefit cut starting now.
- The word “fascist” is used so frequently these days, it is helpful to know what it means.
- There is no evidence that trans medical procedures reduce adolescent suicide rates.
Saturday Links
- 6.4 million people are improperly enrolled in an exchange plan for which they are ineligible.
- More than 1,900 non-profit hospitals – 80% of non-profit hospitals — gave less back to their communities than they had received in tax breaks. In total, the amount ($25.7 billion) would have been sufficient to pay off the medical debt of everyone in California, Texas, New York, and Pennsylvania combined.
- Perils of outdoor cooking: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that each year, 48 million people (I in 6 Americans) get sick from a foodborne illness.
- Why is thimerosal controversial?
- “Countries like the U.S., France, New Zealand, and Sweden have now switched to [fertility] rates well below replacement, while countries like China, Taiwan, and South Korea are at levels that imply catastrophic population collapses over the next century.”